Interior vs Intimate - What's the difference?
interior | intimate |
Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
(mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.
Closely acquainted; familiar.
Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
Personal; private.
A very close friend.
(in plural intimates ) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
To suggest or disclose discreetly.
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As adjectives the difference between interior and intimate
is that interior is within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner while intimate is closely acquainted; familiar.As nouns the difference between interior and intimate
is that interior is the inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure while intimate is a very close friend.As a verb intimate is
to suggest or disclose discreetly.interior
English
Alternative forms
* interiour (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- the interior''' apartments of a house; the '''interior surface of a hollow ball
- the interior parts of a region or country
Antonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* interior decoration * interior design * interior designerNoun
(en noun)- ''Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior .
Antonyms
* (l)intimate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an intimate friend
- He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
- She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
- an intimate setting
Noun
(en noun)- Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
- You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.
Synonyms
* (close friend) bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousinVerb
(intimat)- The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
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Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.
- He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.